City Commissioner Salary...Up Nearly 1000 Percent!!!

[jerry]

Thier pay was NOT set by state law it IS of thier own doing set by CITY ordinance. You can look it up at www.richmond.ky.gov under city ordinances, that will bring up a pop up that takes you amlegal. com then click on the word contents then click on ordinance 30.03. Bubba must have copied and pasted it because what he says is actually word for word what the city ordinance reads.

[Pay cut]

jerry wrote:

Thier pay was NOT set by state law it IS of thier own doing set by CITY ordinance. You can look it up at www.richmond.ky.gov under city ordinances, that will bring up a pop up that takes you amlegal. com then click on the word contents then click on ordinance 30.03. Bubba must have copied and pasted it because what he says is actually word for word what the city ordinance reads.

Never said it wasn't. Like I said this is what I was told. I've been trying to look it up and the only thing I can find is that along the lines of the pay can only be set based on something in February.

[Single Malt]

I haven't seen any response to this question: What is an appropriate salary for a commissioner or the mayor in Richmond? Keep in mind the growth in the last 20 years as well as the type of issues they are responsible for.

I'm seeing a lot of "blah blah" but with all the noise you should be able to make a suggestion or recommendation.

[MDG 61]

Bubba wrote:

It appears the salaries were established by ordinance in 1989 and increase automically each year based on the Consumer Price Index. See the following from the City Ordinances, available on the City web site.
30.03 SALARIES.
(A) That Mayor and City Commissioners shall receive annual salaries of $11,171.68 and $8,378.76 respectively. This new salary rate shall be effective as of January 1, 1990.
(B) All future holders of the offices of Mayor and City Commissioners shall receive an annual salary based on the consumer price index as determined by the Finance and Administration Cabinet, as established herein in division (A).
('79 Code,§ 2-19)(Ord. 74-24, passed 8-20-74; Am. Ord. 89-61, passed 12-16-89)

See, according to this they don't vote on their salaries, it just goes up each year determined but the consumer price index, which is basically the cost of living increase I'd imagine. And honestly,$11k is probably a fairly small salary for a mayor position in a city the size of Richmond. I made that working weekends only at a Food Lion during my college years.

[Serve Not Steal]

Single Malt wrote:

I haven't seen any response to this question: What is an appropriate salary for a commissioner or the mayor in Richmond? Keep in mind the growth in the last 20 years as well as the type of issues they are responsible for.
I'm seeing a lot of "blah blah" but with all the noise you should be able to make a suggestion or recommendation.

Let's see, they meet, what, twice a month for their little televised meetings to say "yes," "yes," "yes," "yes."

They are making around $1500 a meeting now. I say $10 per meeting should suffice. Add another $60 a year for their other little duties and so that fat f*ck can get him a couple tubs of ice cream. So, I would say $300 a year should be a fair pay.

Seriously, I would gladly serve the community as commissioner without a dime of pay. Like most of them, I don't need the money and would rather it go to better the lives of those in the community who need it.Folks, if the mayor and commissioners refused a salary, you are looking at nearly $200,000 a year that could go to better Richmond.

[MDG 61]

Serve Not Steal wrote:

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Let's see, they meet, what, twice a month for their little televised meetings to say "yes," "yes," "yes," "yes."
They are making around $1500 a meeting now. I say $10 per meeting should suffice. Add another $60 a year for their other little duties and so that fat f*ck can get him a couple tubs of ice cream. So, I would say $300 a year should be a fair pay.
Seriously, I would gladly serve the community as commissioner without a dime of pay. Like most of them, I don't need the money and would rather it go to better the lives of those in the community who need it.Folks, if the mayor and commissioners refused a salary, you are looking at nearly $200,000 a year that could go to better Richmond.

Yeah yeah yeah. The same crap people say every single year and funny how none of these "better than thou" types never run for the office and refuse the pay.

Any idea how much crap these people put up with and have to deal with? Yeah they may only meet 2 times a month or whatever but that doesn't mean their not working on it in between those. You know, at some point that have to prepare all that stuff they all say "yes yes yes" to, as you put it. There is no way I'd be mayor of this crappy, bitchy town for the 15k or whatever they are getting. You can easily make that at any other job and not have any of the stress or obligations that they do.

[jerry]

MDG 61 wrote:

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See, according to this they don't vote on their salaries, it just goes up each year determined but the consumer price index, which is basically the cost of living increase I'd imagine. And honestly,$11k is probably a fairly small salary for a mayor position in a city the size of Richmond. I made that working weekends only at a Food Lion during my college years.

They passed it in 1989 so they wouldn't have to vote on it ever year. If they are giving themselfs yearly raises then why the h#ll isn't the city workers getting one every year? They should have to give back every raise they got in the years that the city's employees didn't get a raise. If they can pass ordinance 30.03 for themselfs to get raises annually then they should have passed one that would have given all city workers the same raise. This just proves they don't give a d@mn about the city just THEMSELFS!!

[Single Malt]

MDG 61 wrote:

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Yeah yeah yeah. The same crap people say every single year and funny how none of these "better than thou" types never run for the office and refuse the pay.
Any idea how much crap these people put up with and have to deal with? Yeah they may only meet 2 times a month or whatever but that doesn't mean their not working on it in between those. You know, at some point that have to prepare all that stuff they all say "yes yes yes" to, as you put it. There is no way I'd be mayor of this crappy, bitchy town for the 15k or whatever they are getting. You can easily make that at any other job and not have any of the stress or obligations that they do.

Couldn't say it any better than that. There seem to be a lot of people on Topix with all of the answers but you just don't see them stepping up to the plate.

[doolittle]

Vote Em Out wrote:

When I first moved to Richmond in the late eighties, early nineties, salary for the PART-TIME commissioner duties was around $3,000. From what I understand, after voting themselves numerous pay increases, these thieves now have salaries on excess of $30,000. That's more than a 900% increase. Folks, why do we stand for such criminality??? People are hurting financially, yet these bastards continue to steal from us. The only recourse we have is to vote them out...Otherwise they will continue to rape us! Vote these crooks... Strong, Blythe, Brewer, Lawson... ALL of them... Out of Public Office. City hallthere has turned into a den of thieves! These four people should be in a jail cell!!!

there are four commisisoers you dummy Lawson is Mayor you dummy Rita is commis.

[Jetstream]

Nobody should get a raise when they can't do their job/s......like the Commissioners/Mayor are doing.

Their "scheduled" raises are apparently not merit-based.